After the Navy awarded a $235M modified contract to Austal USA to build its latest multi-purpose Expeditionary Fast Transport ship, new details are emerging. A Naval Sea Systems Command spokesperson told USNI News the ambulance variant of the EPF will have both an intensive care unit and other medical accommodations. “Beginning with EPF-14, the EPF Flight II configuration enhances current EPF capabilities by including health services (resuscitative care capability with a limited ICU and medical ward) to the ship while maintaining most of the original mission requirements of the ship,” Alan Baribeau said in the statement. DoD issued the contract modification Feb. 26. EPF-15 is the second ambulance variant, now called Flight II, of the Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport vessel that Austal is building for the Navy in Mobile, Ala. (Source: USNI News 03/05/21) https://news.usni.org/2021/03/05/new-details-of-austals-epf-hospital-ship-emerge
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